Pierre-Loic Denichou
By Loft, October 1st, 2008,in | No Comments »
Having studied to become a teacher, I practiced but a couple years in France before devoting myself entirely to the adventure of an expatriate’s life. I left to live two years in Bolivia, an underprivileged country in the middle of South America.
I had a profound passion for art, in particular Modern Art, but was at the time solely a spectator and intervened in the work only by making it resound in me as W. Kandinsky so well defined it.
In numerous places across the globe, France is often referred to in the field of the arts and literature. That explains why many parents at the school in which I taught had careers in the arts as painters, sculptors, actors, poets or even writers. Convinced by the cultural heritage and successful French educational system, the artists were numerous to come and entrust us with their children’s education.
Through my friendship with some of them, I discovered the wings of their creativity by visiting their studios. I soon found myself becoming once more a pupil and learning by their sides, a learning experience that quickly brought me in front of the canvas. Thanks to them, I now had some tools giving me the ability to express, to share with the others that which was dearest to my heart … As a result the seed of creativity that had found root inside of me bore its first fruit in 2006 in a first exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in Bolivia, from the 8th to the 30th of November.?A short while later, I began a new adventure, in a new place: Los Angeles …
Mark Rothko and mainly the work and the words of Pierre Soulages have raised so many questions within me that, today, standing before a blank canvas, waiting to dare, I am captivated by the quest of emotion, for a dialogue, through the light…?And so I came across asphalt which, because of its color and infinite textures, amazed me with the light…
The opportunity to exhibit my work has yet again presented itself, at the Armory Center of arts in Pasadena, from March 22 to April 13, 2008.
So many things to search for, so many more to find…
